THE MEETING ROOM AND DINING HALL

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A single room, measuring about thirty-seven by thirty-two feet, occupies the central portion of the first story. Used as a meeting room and a dining room, this hall is finished with square-edged door and window casings of longleaf southern yellow pine, a quartersawn floor of the same material, and a ceiling of gypsum or composition board. Four columns, arranged in pairs and cased with southern yellow pine, rise through this hall to support principal girders of the floor of a lodge room above. The first-floor hall is accessible from the outdoors through the double doorway in the center of the facade, and from the stairhall at the north through a single interior doorway.

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THE KITCHEN

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The southern end of the first story is occupied by a kitchen measuring about twelve by thirty-two feet.  The upper walls and ceiling of the kitchen project up into the space below a second-floor stage; the ceiling of the kitchen is this some two feet higher than that of the other first floor rooms, providing some relief from the heat in the days when a woodburning range was used for cooking. Two five-paneled pine doors connect the kitchen with the dining room in the center of the first floor; between these doors is an opening in the wall with a hinged table that folds down to provide a connection between the kitchen and dining room.  Below this opening is a counter with drawers; other counters line much of the perimeter of the kitchen.  At the northwest corner of the kitchen in a single-flue brick chimney for the cooking range, and below the floor in this area is a fifty-foot brick well, now disused, that supplied water to a sink in the southwest corner of the room.